Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre of Glanton was a prominent Britishhistorian. [1] He was Master of Peterhouse (Cambridge), from 1980 to 1987. [2]

During World War II, Trevor-Roper served in the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), where he was a colleague of Kim Philby. At the end of the war, he carried out an SIS investigation into the fate of Hitler, which provided the material for his 1947 book, The Last Days of Hitler.

Trevor-Roper attended the 1950 Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom, as a member of the British delegation, which was funded by the Foreign Office, though the Information Research Department.[3] He was highly critical of the tone of the conference, and attacked the domination of proceedings by 'rootless European ex-Communists'. [4]